Scott Weisbenner

Scott Weisbenner was an American economist, focusing on household portfolio decisions and the financial and operational decisions made by corporate executives and other institutional managers. He was the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance for the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois and before that, the A.J. Pasant Professor of Finance at Michigan State University.

He received his BA in economics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995, and received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999. While at MIT, he was classmates with Jeffrey Brown, his future colleague and current dean of the Gies College of Business. Provided by Wikipedia